Bottle washing apparatus



E. LANNMARK BOTTLE WASHING APPARATUS Dec.20, 1938.

Filed April 29, 1937 5- illlllllll. lllk Illlllrlllllll Sve n Erik Lav-mm ark INVENITQIE.

Patented Dec. 20, 1933 U I TED STATES PATENT OFFICE Application April29, 1937, Serial No. 139,656

In Sweden September 20, 1935' 4 Claims. (01. 198-131) The presentinvention relates to improvements in bottle washing apparatus of thekind provided g with a number of receptacles attached to conveyer chainsor the like and serving to receive a line of bottles. The saidreceptacles are adapted to cooperate with squirting means for cleansingliquid and'are quite open at one end to enable the insertion and theremoval of the bottles. The

, invention consists substantially therein that each 1 "receptacle is,divided into cells by means of trans- 'versal partitions. At the otherend of each cell 1 -:there are provided plates placed on edge and spacedin relation to each other, said plates being parallel with each other atthe mouth of the cell 15 andfastenedin such a manner as to guide the-bottles',when the same are being inserted, and tosupport the mouths ofthe bottles during the 2 cleansing.

V The. accompanying drawing illustrates a conj 20 structional form ofthe invention.

, Figure 1 shows the device, in front view, provided with three cells. iFigure shows the same device, viewed from the under side.

25 Figure3 is a cross section of one of the cells.

The drawing, by wayof example, illustrates a receptacle divided intothree cells. The receptacle is formed by two side plates I, 2, which aresuitably spaced andbent inwards at their lower 40 bottles'in and removethe same from the cells.

Those .ends of the cells, which in the drawing 'arefshown to be thelower ends, consist of a number, of thin plates or lamellae I placed onedge and 1 atsome distance from each other in such a man- 45 .ner thatthey serve to guide the'bottles when the latter are being inserted, andalso to support the mouths of. the bottles during the -cleansingoperation. .The said plates or lamellae I, which at the mouths of thecells are parallel-with each other,

50 are interconnected by means of rivets 8 with distancespieces betweenthe plates 1, the said rivets holding the side plates l, 2 together. Theinner po'rtionsof the plates or lamellae are attached "to the partitions3. Those edges of the plates 5 5 or the lamellae i, which are turned WWQQS the interiorof the cell, converge from the partitions 3 outwards insuch a manner that the bottles are centered, when they contact the saidinner edges during the inserting operation, see Figure 1. The innerportions of the two outermost plates or lamellae l are bent outwardsfrom the adjacent plate or lamellae, see Figure 3, so as to facilitatethe centering of the bottle during the inserting operation and so as toprevent the neck of the bottle from getting between one of the outermost10 plates 1 and the adjacent side plate I or 2. As will be seen fromFigures 1 and 2 the plates or lamellae I, in the constructional formshown, are arranged in groups in such a manner that between two suchgroups there is formed an opening 9 for the mouth of the bottle, thesaid opening being located in the centre of the end of the cell.

On account of the said arrangement of the plates or lamellae I thecleansing liquid from the shower device 6 for washing the outsides ofthe bottles will pass through the cells practically without impediment,thereby removing remainders of labels or the like on the outsides of thebottles, by which a better cleansing is obtained.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

1. As an element of a bottle washing machine,

a receptacle for bottles to be washed, said receptacle comprising a cellopen at one end thereof for receiving a single bottle, and a grillprovided at the other end of the cell, said grill consisting of aplurality of upright plates arranged in spaced relationshipwith theirouter edges parallel to one another and being cut out obliquely to forma substantially conical recess in said grill for centering andsupporting the mouth of the bottle.

2. A receptacle, as claimed in claim 1, in which the two outermostplates have inner portions flared sidewardly towards the cell walls.

3. As an element of a bottle washing machine,

a receptacle for the bottles to be washed, said receptacle comprising acell open at one end thereof for receiving a single bottle, and a grillprovided at the other end of said cell, said grill being composed of twogroups of upright spaced group, the two plate groups of each cellforming a grill with a central, substantially circular open-' ingtherein, each plate having'its greatest height correspondingsubstantially to that of the inclined wall portion adjacent the wall ofthe cell and being cut away obliquely'towards said central opening. v

SVEN ERIK LAN NMARK.

